Freedom versus Power

Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash.

Harriet Rubin

Change responsiveness

It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.

Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)

Management

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

Secret of change

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old but on building the new.

Socrates (470 - 399 BC)

Scale learning

You will never scale unless you can find ways to connect with outside organizations and create relationships where you are all learning faster than you could on your own

John Hagel

Smart people

No matter how many smart people you have in your organization, just remember there are a lot more smart people outside your organization

Bill Joy - co-founder Sun Microsystems

Emergence

Complex problems are not “solvable.”  You have to get good with living with this uncertainty and get good at accepting the gift and the curse of emergence.

Chris Corrigan

Time

Time is the quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at once.  Lately it doesn't seem to be working.

Anonymous

Inzet

Ik ken niets bemoedigenders dan het onbetwiste vermogen van de mens om zichzelf op een hoger plan te krijgen door bewuste inzet en toewijding.

Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

Wat telt

Niet alles dat kan worden geteld telt, en niet alles dat telt kan worden geteld.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

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